COTA Turn 1: Braking from 312 to 91 km/h

Turn 1 · Circuit of the Americas · Austin, Texas, United States

T1
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 1; the bar across the track is the start line.

Steep, blind uphill braking zone; heavy braking and the main passing spot.

Min speed
91 km/h
Approach
312 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
12%
Into the lap
9.7 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:32.510

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 312 km/h and slowed to 91 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 1, shedding 221 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 246 km/h before Turn 2.

Turn 1 comes 12% of the way round the 5.513 km lap, 0.66 km after the start line, and the car got there 9.7 s into the 1:32.510 lap. At 91 km/h it is the joint slowest of the 20 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Circuit of the Americas, slowest first

  1. T1Turn 191 km/h
  2. T11Turn 1191 km/h
  3. T13-15Stadium section94 km/h
  4. T12Turn 12104 km/h
  5. T16-18Turns 16-18202 km/h
  6. T19Turn 19218 km/h
  7. T3-6The Esses241 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:32.510 lap.

Before and after

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